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UNM grad workers’ right to unionize approved

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Public Employee Labor Relations Board strikes previous recommendation

By Madeline Pukite @madelinepukite After the fight to unionize has been ongoing for over a year, the United Graduate Workers of the University of New Mexico received a win as graduate students were labeled as public and regular employees by the New Mexico Public Employee Labor Relations Board (PELRB) on Aug. 17. This label, as specified by the Public Employee Bargaining Act (PEBA), gives the graduate workers the right to form a union. The board will meet again in the future to define what the workers’ bargaining units will be.

The board unanimously sided with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), the larger union that the United Grad Workers is apart of; this move struck the recommended decision that PELRB executive director and hearing officer Thomas Griego made in June that grad workers were not public or regular employees, and

therefore couldn’t unionize.

The board’s new decision states that public employees with definitive contracts are “guaranteed collective bargaining rights.” In addition, it states that PEBA specifically includes work funded by grants or third-party sources. Both of these cases were arguments that UNM had cited in the first board hearing on Aug. 3 on why grad workers should not be afforded these protections.

The decision to label the grad workers as public and regular employees comes after a wave of graduate worker unionization efforts across the country. At UNM, many members anticipated the decision going the other way and Samantha Cooney, a member of the coordinating committee for the Union, said everyone felt “extreme bliss” once they heard the news.

Moving forward, Griego said that an “appropriateness of the bargaining unit” hearing will be held to define the exact terms of the Union’s bargaining units. Before the hearing, Griego will

Board of Regents special meeting passes plethora of approvals 3 hour-long session greenlights multiple multi-million dollar projects

By Megan Gleason @fabflutist2716 The University of New Mexico’s Board of Regents had an exceptionally long list of action items and passed nearly everything in a virutal meeting that lasted over three hours on Aug. 19. The only item that didn’t pass was the sale of the Student Family Housing property to the Central New Mexico Community College.

The concern for many on the Board of Regents was the value cost of the SFH property, which was estimated to be $1,090,000 in proportion to the size and location of the land. The 13-acre property currently sits tucked east of CNM’s main campus, also near UNM’s south campus. Ultimately, Regents Jack Fortner, Randy Ko, William Payne and Doug Brown voted against passing the item so the Board could spend more time

to consider it.

The issue of the land also brought up the concern that the University has no current plans to replace Student Family Housing, which shut down in May. UNM’s real estate director Tom Neale said the prospect is “just too expensive and the economics don’t work at this point in time.” However, Fortner said family housing should be a part of UNM’s academic mission, and a majority of the other regents agreed that the issue should be discussed; Brown said this topic, which was a separate discussion from the concern of selling the land, would be brought up in the future.

Over a third of the meeting was dedicated solely to reviewing new requests and expansion requests for UNM’s Research and Public Service Projects (RPSP) on main campus and the Health Sciences

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be presented with a case analysis, and he will then deliver a recommended decision on how the bargaining units should work.

At the hearing, both the grad union and University will be allowed to present their own cases in front of the board, who will vote on Griego’s recommendation afterwards. That decision can again be appealed by a disagreeing party, which would restart the hearing process. According to Griego, the timeline for his recommendation and the hearing process is still being figured out.

Currently, Kelsey Treviño, a chief steward for the Union, said the three demands the Union is pushing for are better wages, benefits and working conditions. The Union also has a petition addressed to University administration that calls for recognition by the University, and outlines these demands more thoroughly.

Cooney said the Union hopes that the process will move forward

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New UNM students listen to presentations during First-Year Convocation at Johnson Center on Aug. 22.

Autopsy and footage reveals MDC inmate’s circumstances of death

By Gabriel Biadora & Shelby Kleinhans @gabrielbiadora @ BirdsNotReal99 Joleen Nez, a Native American woman who was cited for the petty misdemeanor of public littering in 2020, was pronounced dead on Jan. 31 as a result of the toxic effects of methamphetamine, according to an autopsy report filed by the Office of the Medical Investigator.

As reported in the Daily Lobo in February, Nez was cited in April of last year after she kicked over a cup and bowl at the intersection of Texas Street and Zuni Road and refused to pick up and throw away the cup — although she did throw away the bowl — according to the criminal complaint completed by Officer Preston Panana. Body camera footage shows an officer giving Nez the citation at the intersection after a verbal altercation

with another individual that four officers witnessed.

According to data from the city, Nez's case was part of the 34% of cases from 2020 where officers only cited a person for littering on public property and no other crimes. Most of the citations involved criminal complaints about people dropping lit cigarettes or cups on the ground, like Nez did, and refusing to pick them up.

Nez did not receive the summons to appear in court and consequently had a bench warrant for her arrest, which put her into Metropolitan Detention Center custody on Jan. 29.

Her case was dismissed without prejudice by a nolle prosequi the following day.

While Nez was waiting for her release, she was found unresponsive by another inmate at approximately 11:44 a.m. on Jan. 30. Nez was responsive earlier in the morning when she appeared to be throwing up as seen from

security camera footage inside the jail. After the inmate reported her unresponsive, MDC officers responded by performing CPR for about half an hour until paramedics arrived on the scene and quickly occupied the open area inside the jail where Nez slept on a mattress on the floor with other inmates.

First responders on the scene quickly transitioned to using an automatic CPR device on Nez for about 15 minutes until approximately 12:30 a.m. when they wheeled her out on a stretcher to be transported via ambulance to the University of New Mexico Hospital. Due to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the specific measures of care that were provided at UNMH is unclear; but, according to the autopsy, she was pronounced dead at 7:18 a.m. on Jan. 31.

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quickly, and that the University will not try to fight bargaining with them any longer.

“We do not want to see another delay using taxpayer dollars and expensive lawyers,” Cooney said. “We want you and them to understand that the labor board's decision is correct, and it is what we knew was correct all along.”

James Holloway, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, said that “graduate assistantships” are incredibly important to the operations of the University, and that the provost office is looking forward to seeing the state labor

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board’s written decision “concerning the status of graduate students receiving financial support through these assistantships.” ”We learned (on Aug. 17) that the State Labor Board overruled its director's earlier ruling that graduate student workers were ineligible to form a union under New Mexico Public Employees Bargaining Act,” Holloway wrote to the Daily Lobo.

“We regard graduate students as a critical set of learners at UNM. UNM’s graduate programs, and our graduate student learners and researchers, contribute greatly to the University and are also crucial to

the development of the advanced workforce within New Mexico.”

A current goal for the Union is to get new grad workers who haven’t filled out their bargaining survey yet to do so, according to Treviño; the Union has already collected initial responses through the survey that detail what grievances the members have had or are currently facing. The overall goal of the survey is to collect data so the Union can definitively decide what they will collectively bargain for.

Despite the long processes the Union has been going through, Cooney said the formal decision by

PELRB will protect the rights of grad workers to unionize across the state for years to come.

“This does solidify our rights, and it guarantees that not only UNM graduate workers are covered under PEBA but grad workers throughout New Mexico public universities are covered under PEBA,” Cooney said.

Treviño said a lot of members who have been fighting for this union will not reap the benefits, but that knowing it will help these future grad workers is why they continue to fight.

“We really want to help our people; we want to take care of our

people, and it doesn't stop us even though we may not benefit personally,” Treviño said.

On Sept. 3, the Union will hold a “Rally for Recognition,” which Cooney and Treviño both said will continue to put pressure on the University to bargain with them as soon as possible.

ment (NMHED) next month and Damron said they “have many more steps to go before we see where any of this money lands.”

Another action topic at the meeting that was unanimously passed was the approval for the New Mexico Mutual Champions Training Center, which is estimated to cost $4,380,978. This 11,312 gross-square-foot training center will be specifically for student athletes, who have been working out of a 7,200 net-square-foot outdoor tent. While the focus is especially on UNM’s Olympic sports, UNM Director of Athletics Eddie Nuñez said athletes from all sports are allowed in the area. Nuñez also said the area will help address the existing Title IX inequities.

“This is going to have all of our student athletes working under one roof for the first time ever,” Nuñez said.

All capital project approvals on the agenda also unanimously passed, which included approvals for an increase in funding on the UNM Taos College Pathways to Careers Center project, the beginning of a three-part project to repair and modify the Student

Residence Center stairwells, the addition of security turnstiles with card-swipe assets and asset tracking gates as well as new security and information desks at Zimmerman Library, and the renovation of the restrooms located in the basement of the Center for the Arts.

The additional security to Zimmerman brought up a conversation about who is accessing campus buildings; Lisa Marbury, Assistant Vice President of Campus Environments and Facilities, said the University Libraries reported an increasing number of security incidents in the past five years. After a question from Regent Sandra Begay on if this security initiative would go beyond just Zimmerman on campus, Marbury said a possible future plan would be to require card access to all UNM buildings if funding could be figured out.

“We’re a public university and we’ve always maintained an open campus where the public is free to roam but I think that the realities of modern life are such that we really have to channel that and control that much more ag-

gressively than ever before, unfortunately,” Brown said.

In addition, the approval of the FY21 fourth quarter submission to NMHED for the enhanced fiscal oversight program concerning UNM Athletics’ financial status was unanimously passed by the Board. Notably, Athletics paid off FY20’s accumulated debts of $1,627,657 and carried a positive $1,404,313 in June.

Some of the quicker action items that unanimously passed at the meeting included the submission of the NMHED, Institutional Finance Division, Quarterly Financial Actions Report and Certification; the addition of a Cerner Electronic Medical Record Pediatric Oncology module; the annual renewal of the Maui High Performance Computing Center; and the approval to purchase a specific property for UNM Hospitals. The amended and restated bylaws for the Lobo Development Corporation were also passed along with two new member approvals on the UNM Hospital Board of Trustees — Judge Monica Zamora and Dr. Davin Quinn.

The Board spent about 40 minutes at the end of the meeting in executive session, which is closed to the public, tackling two discussion items: “the purchase, acquisition or disposal of real property or water rights” and “matters subject to attorneyclient privilege pertaining to threatened or pending litigation.”

The public comment that took place at the start of the meeting was largely ruled by graduate students who discussed the recent ruling by the New Mexico Public Employee Labor Relations Board that gives the United Graduate Workers of UNM the right to unionize as well as members of the Committee of Interns and Residents, who are fighting for better benefits as physicians at UNM.

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Center for the fiscal year 2023 (FY23) with UNM’s Chief Government Relations Officer Barbara Damron; the Board passed the action item unanimously. The total FY23 RPSP requests add up to $63,899,140; the new RPSPs account for approximately $1.2 million, the expanded RPSPs account for about $28.6 million with almost $10.5 million specifically allocated for expansions and the flat RPSPs account for just over $34 million.

The most expensive RPSP requests came from Project ECHO, who requested $4 million on top of their current funding of $2,537,500, UNM Athletics, who requested a $2 million expansion in addition to their current funding of $4,188,600, and the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, who requested an expansion of $1,723,000 on top of their current funding of $5,541,600. Other requests range from ethnic centers, education programs, health centers and more; the full list of the 20 total RPSP requests can be found online.

The RPSPs will move to the New Mexico Higher Education Depart-

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My traumatic experience as a breakthrough COVID-19 case

By Megan Gleason @fabflutist2716 I write as a student journalist that has covered the COVID-19 pandemic since it started. I write as an aspiring musician who has been playing the flute for half of my life. I write as a heartbroken person who feels isolated emotionally and physically as I get over my experience with COVID-19.

And I write for all the people lost due to the recklessness of others.

I did everything right: I’m fully vaccinated, I’ve been adhering to mask mandates and social distancing, and I’ve been putting my life on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic. But I still got the virus.

Up until about two weeks ago, I’d ironically felt separated from the virus that’s shaped our lives for the past year and a half. The thought that I could get COVID-19 myself seemed unrealistic, and even more so once

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I got vaccinated. But coming down with the virus reminded me of the reality of the situation that we’re all in and that we’re not, by any means, done with this pandemic.

I didn’t come down with the virus by myself; my partner and his parents also endured COVID-19. My ten-day isolation felt incredibly long, especially as I helped my partner — who had much worse symptoms than I did and still can’t taste or smell anything — cope with his own experience with this illness. The two of us struggled through the situation together, while his parents did the same in another isolated environment.

My recovery comes just days before school starts as I face another difficult roller coaster, which is the safety I feel (or don’t feel) going back to school in person. Even with both vaccine and mask mandates, I can’t help but compare the circumstances to those in which I got COVID-19. How many others will contract the virus because we’re learning in person again? The

fear of an abrupt online transition is on everyone’s minds again and I’m not sure I can emotionally handle that experience a second time.

While some part of me tries to convince myself that these aren’t rational thoughts because contracting COVID-19 won’t happen to the majority of vaccinated people, I can’t help but think about those that will be stuck in my boat as one of those rare breakthrough cases. We’re allowing those cases to propagate because society can’t take a break.

As a musician, I was especially frightened while I had COVID-19.

Contracting this lung virus was a traumatizing fear that I’d felt for a year and a half before it actually happened, and I’m still putting together my emotions after having endured that fear.

Every time I picked up my flute during my isolation, I was hyper-aware of my breath capacity. Even now, I can’t tell if I lost anything I used to have; I constantly overthink and overanalyze every time I practice.

While I struggled to play the flute and get through my isolation, I also wrestled with other symptoms.

Along with nausea that kept my head spinning for days, I dealt with an overwhelming amount of physical exhaustion. For a perfectionist and someone who overworks every day like myself, coming to terms with allowing my body to rest was a difficult feat. In a society where work doesn’t stop for you unless you're on death’s door, I didn’t take one day off — even though I had the virus that’s turned the world upside down! This is due to both a poor structuring of the work system wherein virtually nobody can fill my position, as well as a constant pressure to seem okay for those looking in from the outside. Every time someone asked, “How are you doing?” I found myself saying “I’m fine” even if I was anything but.

In the end, getting COVID-19 made me all the more grateful for the ability to be vaccinated. Hundreds of thousands of people have died from this virus and I will not listen to the argument that the vaccine is doing more harm than good any longer. The undeniable fact that the vaccine saves lives, which I myself may have experienced, is something that I hold to be true beyond a doubt.

I have very little patience for the immaturity shown in a society full of spoiled individuals who have lost, or never had, a moral compass for anyone but themselves. This pandemic has clearly illustrated those that have respect for the lives of their fellow human beings, and those that are willing to risk anything to promote their own stupidity.

Wear a mask, get vaccinated and quit complaining. Take it from someone who had COVID — I’m tired of hearing it.

A bright aspect of this experience was the support and love from my own community. However, even through all of the well-wishes that surround me, I still struggle to voice how difficult this experience really was, and still is. Symptom-wise, I’m incredibly lucky. But I just can’t say the same for my mental health.

Physically, I have recovered. But emotionally? That’s a toll that will be incredibly difficult to ever overcome.

Megan Gleason is the Editor-inChief of the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at editorinchief@dailylobo. com or on Twitter @fabflutist2716

5 back-to-school hacks for students

By Emma Trevino @itsemmatr With school starting up and stress looming, it can seem pretty nervewracking to come to campus, either for the first time ever or for the first time in a year and a half. Having personally experienced college before and during the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, I feel like a more-thancompetent student; while I don’t have all the answers, I’ve compiled a list of general tips that every student can utilize.

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Take advantage of communal spaces I know with social distancing and mask mandates that it might sound impossible to hang out in communal spaces, but some of my best college memories are laying in the grass around the Duck Pond with friends or studying at Zimmerman Library. Just being around other people makes for a more interesting day. This time around, we just have

to do it more carefully.

Having these areas at our disposal is a big privilege that I think a lot of people take for granted. Even the sitting areas on the edges of Smith Plaza are a great place to meet a friend for coffee or do homework, so please don’t stay locked in your room if you can help it — I promise you’ll be better off!

2. Use a planner Non-planner people (myself included) make their lives so much harder for no reason. I just recently got a planner, and am already feeling a million times better about the semester. Sure, it’s good for school, but if you’re involved with any student organizations or have a job, a planner will completely change your life.

One of the things that kept me from using one was the fact that I never knew how to utilize it correctly. At the beginning of every school year, without fail, I would buy a new planner and instantly neglect it.

“The Organized Money,” a YouTube channel focused on productivity

and organiztion, has a video tutorial that provides helpful tips for using a planner to the fullest, and it was a lifesaver. By far the best quote from the video was “a messy planner is better than a blank one”; there are tons of other videos and articles just like it if you’re unsure of where to start.

3. Get involved on campus Now that school is back in person, it’s the perfect opportunity to find a student organization to be a part of.

This can make your college years infinitely more fun and meaningful. Having a social hobby outside of classes gives you a chance to explore your interests, make new friends and maybe even find a new passion.

Even if you’re an upperclassmen, it’s not too late! I can say from firsthand experience that it’s so much better to get involved a little later than to never get involved at all.

4. Don’t work too hard This is probably the most important tip on this list — not working

yourself to death is the key to thriving in college. You might think that the more you study the better you’ll do, but the truth is, if you overwork yourself, you’re only setting yourself up for failure. “Burnout” isn’t just a word used by therapists for drama — it’s a very real and widespread problem, especially for college students.

I know, I know — you’re busy.

You don’t have time to watch that show you missed the other day or make a good dinner. But I don’t buy it. You need to either make the time or find a few breaks in the day when you can do a little something for yourself. Listen to your body and be conscious of when you should take a breather; it might save you from a major screw up.

5. Be honest with your professors In my experience, professors are more likely to be lenient with their students if the excuse for a late assignment is “I gotta be real with you; I woke up late and haven’t had time to do it,” versus the repetitive lie “My dog died yesterday” (that’s a spiel

they’ve already heard four times that week).

I’ve also noticed that during our online year of classes, professors were more generous with grades and deadlines than before; I don’t doubt that will continue into this semester.

Tensions are still high and the future is up in the air, so more than likely, professors aren’t expecting you to be on top of your game. Just tell the truth and cross your fingers.

I realize that during this time of COVID-19 delta variant surges and rampant anxiety, everyone has been on edge. Although these hacks certainly won’t make the COVID disaster disappear, I hope the tips can alleviate some stress in this time of transition. Remember that you can’t control everything, but try to make do with what you’ve got.

Emma Trevino is the culture editor at the Daily Lobo. She can be contacted at culture@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @itsemmatr

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pened after Nez’s death.

In April, Centurion Detention Health Services, Bernalillo’s correctional healthcare provider, announced they would be terminating their contract in October — more than a year before the end of the contract’s term. An article from the Albuquerque Journal reported that Bernalillo County Manager Julie Morgas Baca “said that in early April the county ‘expressed concern to Centurion over staff vacancies and continuity of care’ and asked the company to respond to those specific concerns.”

This followed reports that nine other people died in MDC over the past year, with most deaths relating to the ef-

fects caused by detoxing from drugs or alcohol, according to the Journal.

A vigil was held for Nez on May 5 on the stairs in front of the Albuquerque Police Department, illustrating how the community is still reeling from the loss of yet another Indigenous woman, someone who was a mother to multiple children and cared for by many.

Cheyenne Antonio, who was part of the group that organized the event, led the vigil to honor Nez and recognize the significance that May 5 holds as the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls — a day to bring awareness to this often-underreported issue.

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“Joleen Nez is a relative, is a mother, an auntie, a sister; she’s someone … we demand a full investigation and accountability of APD and MDC and medical personnel who were involved in overpolicing practices and neglect,” Antonio said at the vigil.

Gabriel Biadora is a beat reporter at the Daily Lobo.

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A memorial for Joleen Nez rests on the stairs in front of the Albuquerque Police Department substation in downtown Albuquerque on May 5, 2021 (National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls).

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By Megan Gleason @fabflutist2716 The Student Activities Center at the University of New Mexico is welcoming students back to campus with open arms as they continue to host Welcome Back Days from Aug. 23 to Aug. 27, which will feature differently themed days and tabling events during the first week of school.

“We need to kind of jump-start campus life again, and Welcome Back Days … are really good places to find those opportunities to get involved with UNM and make it a better place,” SAC director Ryan Lindquist said.

All of the events taking place on main campus will be at the Duck Pond from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.,

with various visitors to represent different sides of campus. Each day will have free food and/or drinks while supplies last (served starting at noon unless specified otherwise), and live music will be playing at most of the events.

Monday: President's Ice Cream Social & Departmental Information Day Tuesday: Safety, Health, Wellness and Recreation Day Wednesday: UNM Communities Day North Campus Welcome Back Day (located on north campus) Thursday: Student Organization Day Friday: Campus Employment and Community Service Day

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The first day of classes on Monday will have President Garnett Stokes and University administrators serving ice cream, while information booths from different UNM schools and departments will be nearby to talk about “campus programs, services and resources,” according to SAC. Tuesday will have “safety demos, recreational activities and healthy living alternatives'' from the Safety, Health, Wellness and Recreation departments, according to SAC. Visitors can also receive free watermelon.

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Members of the Society of Women Engineers pose during Student Organization Day during Welcome Back Days in August 2019.

campus. Visitors may also enjoy free green chile stew and Pepsi products. On north campus, information booths will be present from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. southeast of the Domenici Center, along with free watermelon and Pepsi products.

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is focused on student organizations along with employment and community service opportunities. ASUNM student government leaders, as well as 200 student organizations, will be present on Thursday to talk about “how to get involved with the over 400 student organiza-

tions on campus,” according to SAC. Free Pepsi products and Dion’s pizza will be served.

Friday ends the Welcome Back Days with departments and organizations that are actively looking to hire or recruit students, and the UNM Alumni Association will serve free coffee and donuts

from 9 a.m. until supplies run out; free Pepsi products will also be served.

Different groups are outside on different days intentionally, as Lindquist said SAC doesn’t want Welcome Back Days to become “static.”

The Welcome Back Days’ events will be a new experience for both first-year and second-year students due to the virtual environment that the COVID-19 pandemic forced the University to be in for the past year and a half.

Second-year Ph.D. student Kelsey Treviño said she wouldn’t be surprised if people are more involved this year than previous years due to the isolation that many have endured over the pandemic.

“We really want to expose people to the different areas of campus, and allow them to know all the different resources and areas that are here to help them,” Lindquist said.

According to Lindquist, different organizations will integrate back into campus life at different paces, which allows for socialization “to happen for the student at the pace that they’re comfortable with.”

Treviño, a member of the Students Solidarity Coalition, will be participating at Welcome Back Days for her organization and is excited to get back to

socializing on campus again with the COVID-19 regulations that are currently in place keeping everyone safe.

“If you can meet somebody where they’re (physically) at, shake hands with somebody and actually talk to somebody in person, it just makes the situation a lot more personable,” Treviño said, comparing these in-person events to the Zoom events that have taken place during the pandemic.

The University is following the state-wide mandate that masks are required indoors at all times unless someone is eating or drinking.

“I think (SAC is) excited to see campus life returning to UNM in whatever way that students feel comfortable in doing, so we encourage them to take the steps to make connections on campus because it’s only going to make their time at UNM better and it truly makes UNM a stronger place when students are involved and active on campus,” Lindquist said.

Megan Gleason is the Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Lobo.

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